Originally Posted by
Glow
The brain could be used to a lot more of a capacity, it's just a matter of learning how to adapt to it, because, even though you can't control heartbeat, part of the brain does. You just have to figure out and manipulate the section that controls it.
You can't control your medulla, that part of the brain doesn't work like that.
You don't want it to be anything but automatic, either. Alcohol affecting your medula is what kills you if you drink too much.
@other people not understanding the brain: you use considerably more than 10% of it at a time. You are almost constantly using your medulla oblangata, cerebellum, and other parts associated with basic bodily functions and relaying information from the nervous system, your thalamus, hypothalamus, and hippocampus, for memories, every part of the neocortex required for sensory information, etc. etc. etc.
And finally @JayStar: your heartbeat speed is variable and also dependent on the person and his respiratory system. It is not in any locked on 72 or in that region. When you exercise it regularly skyrockets, up into the 200's for professional athletes.
@Acavado: who wouldn't want to peel a banana, vomit, and solve square root equations at the same time? Efficiency for a normal afternoon would be hugely increased. Actually, the part of your brain that controls, say, vomiting, is constantly working anyways, and it's the same part that controls movement too, since it includes the cerebellum.
Learning to browse the internet for this sort of information is hugely liberating.
Really, these debilitating conundrums were solved by google (well, they could've been found on google, a biology course is helpful too).
Last edited by Boredpayne; Sep 14, 2011 at 07:59 AM.